WEBVTT RECOVERING.WESH 2'S MATT GRANT REPORTS.>> SHE'S DOING MUCH BETTER.MATT: MARK GENTRY'S WIFE, SUSAN,IS STILL IN THE HOSPITAL,RECOVERING AFTER A REMARKABLERESCUE.THEY SAVED HER LIFE?>> YES, DEFINITELY.MATT: A BYSTANDER TOOK THISPHOTO OF A PICKUP MOMENTS AFTERWITNESSES SAY A MAN DROVE OVERSUSAN IN THIS EDGEWATER DRIVECROSSWALK THURSDAY. WITNESSES SAY SHE PUSHED HERYOUNG DAUGHTER OUT OF THE WAY.>> THE TIRE WAS ON HER CHEST,AND IT WAS SUFFOCATING HER.MATT: MARK AND OTHERS RACED TOHELP BUT COULDN'T QUITE LIFT THESEVERAL THOUSAND POUND TRUCK.UNTIL FOUR BISHOP MOORE FOOTBALLPLAYERS, WHO JUST SO HAPPENED TOALSO BE ON THE WEIGHTLIFTINGTEAM, SAW WHAT HAPPENED ANDRUSHED TO HELP, MANAGING TO LIFTTHE TRUCK LONG ENOUGH TO PULLSUSAN TO SAFETY.>> RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHTTIME.YOU KNOW.THERE IS A REASON EVERYTHINGHAPPENS.YOU KNOW FEELS LIKE A GOD, MOMENT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?MATT: MARK CERTAINLY DOES.IF THESE FOOTBALL PLAYERS DIDN'TSTEP IN WHEN THEY DID, WHAT DOYOU THINK WOULD HAVE HAPPENED?>> I DON'T WANT TO SAY WHATWOULD HAVE HAPPENEWE ALL KNOW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN ATOTALLY DIFFERENT STORY.MATT: MARK SAYS HIS WIFE HADSURGERY FRIDAY AND IS OUT OF THETRAUMA UNIT, SUFFERING AFRACTURED PELVIS AND SEVERALBRUISED RIBS BUT NO INTERNALINJURIES.HE SAYS SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER THEACCIDENT BUT WANTS TO THANK THEYOUNG MEN THE FAMILY ARE CALLINGHEROES.>> SHE KNOWS THAT THEY SAVED HER

An Orlando mother is still in the hospital after a truck slammed into her while crossing a street Thursday.

Now, Susa Gentry’s husband wants to thank the four high school football players who saved her life in a remarkable rescue.

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“She’s doing much better,” said Mark Gentry.

A bystander snapped a photo of a white pickup truck moments after witnesses say a man drove over Susan at a crosswalk. Witnesses say Susan pushed her young daughter out of the way.

“The tire was on her chest and was suffocating her,” said Mark, who watched the whole thing.

Mark and others ran to help but couldn’t lift the several thousand pound truck. He screamed for help and four local football players, who just so happened to also be on the weightlifting team, saw what happened and ran over. They managed to lift the truck long enough to pull Susan to safety.

“Right place at the right time,” said Mario Hernandez, one of the players. “There’s a reason for everything. Feels like a God moment, you know what I mean?”

Mark certainly does.

“I don’t want to say what would have happened” if they didn’t step in, Mark said. “We all know it would have been a totally different story.”

He says they “definitely” saved her life.

Susan had surgery Friday and is out of the trauma unit suffering a fractured pelvis and several bruised ribs, Mark said, but no internal injuries. He says she doesn’t remember much about the accident but wants to thank the young men the family are calling heroes.

“She knows they saved her life,” he said.

Mark thanked others who rushed to help and comforted his two young children.

“I was just screaming for help, help, help,” he said. “Out of nowhere it seemed like an army of people came.”

To those that offered help Mark says: “Thank you so much.”

With permission, WESH 2 gave Mark the phone number for one of the player’s parents. Mark says he and his wife hope to thank the four students in person once she gets out of the hospital.

“Tell them how much it means to us,” he said, when asked what he would say to them. “And what good kids they are.”